In this paper a nonlinear quarter car suspension-seat-driver model was implemented for optimum design. A nonlinear quarter car model comprising of quadratic tyre stiffness and cubic stiffness in suspension spring, frame, and seat cushion with 4 degrees of freedom (DoF) driver model was presented for optimization and analysis. Suspension system was aimed to optimize the comfort and health criter...

The objective of the paper is to determine the acceleration characteristics of vehicles in rural Pennsylvania. The floating car method was used to observe the acceleration characteristics during overtaking maneuvers. The acceleration characteristics from rest were observed manually. Various acceleration values for different vehicles were determined. The maximum value of acceleration observed wa...

In this work, the authors focused on analyzing energy efficiency and dynamics during car acceleration, featuring investigation of acceleration under various intensities. The tests were performed in speed range between 45 km/h 120 km/h, at a constant gear ratio. This enabled obtaining variable dynamic parameters process, ranging from about 0.1 to 1.4 m/s2 , recording variation fuel consumption 6...

A suspension system is one of the integral parts a hyperloop capsule train, which used to isolate car-body from bogie vibration provide safer and comfortable service. semi-active best candidates for its advantageous features. The performance relies greatly on control strategy applied. In this article, Skyhook (SH) mixed Skyhook-Acceleration Driven Damper (SH-ADD) controlling algorithms are adop...

This study investigated the degrees of consistencies in driving behavior when operating a real system (real car), a virtual system (high fidelity driving simulator), and a laboratory system (computer driving game). The same tendency of behavioral consistencies was confirmed among the three systems: i.e., the steering operation demonstrated the highest behavioral consistencies, followed by the a...

Bluff body calculation was accelerated by using a special-purpose computer, MDGRAPE-2, that was exclusively designed for molecular dynamics simulations. The three main issues were solved regarding the implementation of the MDGRAPE-2 on vortex methods. These issues were the efficient calculation of the Biot-Savart and stretching equation, the optimization of the table domain, and the round-off e...

Telematics services include automatic location tracking for emergency rescue, which is available for use in case of a car accident due to falling off roadways. This paper presents a simulation study on how far a car will fall before it hits the ground if it drops off of a roadway due to an accident or a natural disaster. The greatest horizontal distance the falling car can travel is presented i...

A self-organizing feature map (SOM) was used to represent vehicle-following and to analyze the heterogeneities in vehicle-following behavior. The SOM was constructed in such a way that the prototype vectors represented vehicle-following stimuli (the follower's velocity, relative velocity, and gap) while the output signals represented the response (the follower's acceleration). Vehicle trajector...

Vibration has become an important consideration in engineering. Development of industries and vehicles make the subject even more important. In today’s world every family has a car. There for it becomes essential to study the phenomenon of vehicle vibration and it's effects on humans. Man, as a mechanical system, is extremely complex and his mechanical properties readily undergo change. Effect ...